criminal justice reform

A bill allowing the history of a domestic abuse or human trafficking victim to be considered if they kill or severely injure their perpetrator failed to advance from a committee on Tuesday.

Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man. Jermaine Hudson was arrested and convicted by a nonunanimous jury.

Here's what we know about each amendment and how various organizations and advocacy groups feel about them.

The Promise of Justice Initiative is fighting for the release of more than 1,500 people in Louisiana prisons.

This year in Louisiana almost 37,000 people became eligible to vote, thanks to a law that reinstated voting rights for formerly incarcerated people...

Massive criminal justice reforms passed by the Legislature two years ago have shed the state’s title as the incarceration capital of the nation.…

Governor John Bel Edwards will be in New Jersey Thursday to meet with President Trump about criminal justice reform. Louisiana revamped its criminal…